Roman Polanski on "Rosemary's Baby" - Conversations Inside The Criterion Collection 

Just seen it this week for the first time. Movies like this is very rare i agree with you totsly

I agree wholheartedly. It's a perfect film.

Totally agree. Watched it first in my 20s; just watched it again @ aged 66....Brilliant; absorbing story, great acting; love the comedic turns of Ruth Gordon......very stylish, the whole package. No wonder thry show it in film schools👍

I absolutely 100 percent concur!!!

Agreed. Same.

Totally agree, everytime I watch I pickup on things I've previously missed.

You couldn't have said it any better!

Spot on Diana.

Amazing film.Still holds up.I just watched this two days ago.

i agree !

i so agree Diana. I've seen this movie a few times myself, and notice details each viewing. another diehard fan mentioned the scene when Minnie and Laura Louise drop by to give Rosemary the tannis root necklace.....as Rosemary goes to adjust the record player, 2 posters on the wall are of Broadway plays..."Luther" and "Nobody Loves an Albatross". Guy starred in both.

Molly MH It is very scary. It is disquieting.

+Daniel Zanier But shouldn't be aired on Christmas Day as I once observed !!!!

+IAN PAYNE That is shocking.

In fact I'm still afraid of Mia Farrow based on this role alone. And, yeah, John Cassavetes terrifies the hell out of me. Even dead I'm scared of him.

Considering the notoriety of the film, you likely have seen "The Shining," if not I urge you to watch it.

His pathetic little films mean nothing compared to his raping of children.

Robert Evans guaranteed her an Oscar. The sad thing is, that she wasn't even Nominated. 65 years later I'm still angry!

Her performance as Daisy in the Great Gatsby will never be bettered. Her voice was full of money.

@@LivingLegendMe I forgot that one. I always had a weak spot for what was considered a "failed" production. All actors were great, Mia in particular. The woman she played is not very sympathetic. A far cry from Rosemary, eh? She seduced Bob Evans to play her. "Dear Bob; can I be your Daisy?" No kidding. I hate the Gatsby remake without even haven seen it. A bland Daisy, and, what was it? A hiphop music score?

@@willemvandeursen3105 The remake is a kind of made for tv thing. It just doesn´t stand up on the big screen. Mia nailed the role.

+Sean Jacobs yes, one of the main psychological aspects of this film is the interplay between (her) paranoid ideas and the confirmation of these ideas

great comment by you.

+zobielamouche1. Satanism is alot more prevalent than folks realize esp among Jesuit catholics

I knew, when I scrolled down the comments that I'd finally find the first screw-ball comment Quinton Pierce+

its said polanski wanted to replace mia....

Yea. Soundtrack was great!

@BRYLANT5700 You are a nutcase. Get some help.

The soundtrack is PERFECTION!

Outstanding musical score!! One of the best ever!! Glad to see someone else who realizes this/Komeda created much of the film’s frightening atmosphere____

And Mia Farrow singing!

The movie is crammed with such little gems. I saw RB many, many times, I worked in a cinema and it was screened frequently in themed programs. The same with Don't Look Now, I watched and watched and watched.

@@willemvandeursen3105 omg, I thought (from afar) that the tiny thumbnail was Julia Child! ;). Still get the creepy freak out moments with both films you mentioned.

It was brilliantly casted. At the time it seemed inconcievable that an actor would give his wife to Satan for the sake of his career. Not so much these days. It´s probably normal now.

@@LivingLegendMe I can offer you a few witches from Satan's harem, mint condition. (a little bit frayed at places) 😊

@@willemvandeursen3105 They mostly all go crazy and many eventually suicide.

I agree. I love the way Rosemary's dreams incorporate the voices she hears coming from the adjacent apartment, but they're spoken by figures in her dreams. I often fall asleep with podcasts playing in the background, and if I don't set my device to turn off automatically, it will play all night and my dreams end up filled with people speaking whatever is being said in the podcasts...

ADRENOCHROME.

^^^I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TYPE THAT!!!

70 is the New 40!

Ugh. No thanks.

+ifuckyoursister20 Polanski is not a Jew.

His work is very good, but best director? That's a matter of opinion.

Crap human being, but brilliant director. What a loss to cinema his antics with kids were.

It's also psychologically horrific when "Rosemary" thought she was safe at "Dr. Hill" but she wasn't...

Ironically the worst villain in the film is a character not part of the group-Dr. Hill-when he turns over Rosemary to the coven! Rosemary should have said to Hill during that scene:"He called you Charly Nobody."

I would say it's a lot more complicated than that, and there are a lot of factors here. Sure, you can bring up that argument that, if anyone argues about his innocence, they are 'sick human beings, and pedofiles themselves'. But, we call for open-mindness; what if there is more to it than anyone knows? None of you were there, so no one knows what truly happened. There are lots of shades of grey here, among the black & white...it just doesn't make sense to me, for someone to instantly assume a position, and stick to that; that is ignorance in itself. Polanski admits he likes younger girls, but says that she also joined in; why admit that he likes younger girls, but then lie that she wasn't willing? Surely you would deny it all? I just find it ridiclious that people can assume their own holy position, as if they are some highly-goodness people, who have never committed a something questionable..and to condemn others for simply speaking their minds.. So, I ask you; were you there? Do you know exactly what happened? Did you see it? Or is this what you have simply heard off newspapers.. and from other people? I thought that people only believed things if they have seen it; aren't fairytales like the tooth fairy, and Santa, unreal because no one has seen them? Yet, people don't need to see something like an apparent 'crime' to know that they are 100% right, but children are condemned for believing in Santa, even though they have not seen him/her, yet, adults can safely assume that something is truthful, that it is simply it, and there are no other possible questions, even though they have not seen it for themselves. What on earth is going on with mankind?

Louie Dee I'm talking about the movie not the director's life.

brilliant director. the tenant is so good also

@@RenanCMaia Good movie but not one of the best. In my opinion it's 20 minutes too long and the end is quick.

Absolutely

Another thing that is scary is that apartment it tool place is the same one John Lennon lived in when he was murdered-- the Dakoda

ExposedRoot I totally agree

yes. This is one of a few movies that I can rewatch a couple times a year. There is something so real in this film. I'm from Russia and when I went to New York last year the first thing I visited was Dakota building =)

Is the Dakota building accessible?

​@@amina-pr8xtnot for filming anymore

@@odalyscardona339 and for visitors?

What ?

@@user-st5up4kh9y Manson family murdered his wife and unborn baby which was scarier than this movie was.

@@Thundralight Wow...that's scary.

He paid Manson to kill his wife. It was a satanic sacrifice

So true. It's almost as if Polanski summoned up evil with this movie. He was submerged in it. I love it, but you feel disturbed watching it. Just afterwards Polanski dealt with one of the most evil events in history by one of the most evil people in history. It makes you think.

How was it scary loooool? Its the least scariest movie I have ever watched.

Ohh I totally agree, well said!

@@vrxcld5014 Your perception is as good as your English ("least scariest"?).

And he was a child rapist

@@vrxcld5014. It’s really more a conspiracy thriller than a horror film. but the elements are certainly there.

Mia was absolutely perfect in the role. Should have been nominated for the Oscar.

How on earth does Bob Evans not know that Mia wasn’t nominated for an Oscar? I find this to be completely unbelievable. I mean, WTF???

How is it brilliant as I found it rather slow with a sprinkle of a story. Very predictable 6/10 movie. I love movies like the silence of the lambs etc.

@@vrxcld5014 You're crazy

It is odd that neither the director nor the producer (or even Mia) didn't mention the tremendous score created for the movie. Man, there are scenes where the music just propels it all, makes everything feel even more tense and scary. Plus the lullabye sung by Mia, and the music when she lays eyes upon baby Adrian in terror.

Roman knew Komeda when he started to make films in Poland. He did a great job too on Fearless Vampire Killers, but was basically a jazz man.

What magic? Silence of the lambs is magic not this.

That's what satanists do.

@@vrxcld5014 The suspense. Silence of the Lambs can take a back seat to Rosemary's Baby in my opinion.

@@vrxcld5014 are you kidding? Silence of the lambs is good, but Rosemary's Baby is in another league.

@@vrxcld5014. The 2 films are very different, but both are great. RB requires a lot more attention because it’s more intricate and its pacing is slower than Silence’s. I think they’re equally great. Very different but great. Not everyone has the attention span to fully appreciate RB.

Oh dear God- Don't put The Omen in line with those other movies. The Omen is a cheap-yet- high budget "exploitation movie" . The ONLY scene worth anything is when the nanny hangs herself in front of all the kids at the party. That's it. I also have issues with "Don't Look Now" but let's leave it at that.

Thanks for mentioning Don’t Look Now. I love that film, and it so rarely gets mentioned. Julie Christie is absolutely luminous in it. And Suspiria took obvious inspiration from RB. That’s another movie I adore. Talk about your fractured fairy tales!

Agreed!

I want to know more on this topic with his connections to Manson & Royalty.

@@obsoleteelite8258 mansons defense was that Polanski was a satanist and that his pregnant wife’s Sharon tates death was a satanic ritual executed by Polanski and the Hollywood machine based off of the movie

​what connections to royalty ? I've never heard of this before...

I didn't find it scary in anyway. You need to watch real scary movies.

@@vrxcld5014 I'd rather watch a scary movie than a real beheading. So no thank you.

@@vrxcld5014 you are clueless.

It’s been remade

@@randywhite3947 I don't think that was a remake - more like a poor sequel.

"I told you she wouldn't be open minded" pertained to Terri . They told Terri that she was going to give birth to the Devil's baby in exchange for whatever. Terri did not want to partake . So either Terri killed herself to get out of it OR had a spell cast upon her and that forced her to jump.

The painting of the burning cathedral is especially freaky.

+IAN PAYNE Very cool! I loved the book and the original cover for it!

+IAN PAYNE TERRIFIC!

Yes I totally agree with you

He was Brilliant. He also produced The Godfather.

Ya and John Lennon was friends with Mia Farrow. There’s a lot of weird connections

@@beatlefan713 the song dear prudence by the Beatles, is about mja Farrow's sister

@@beatlefan713 Yeah, all weirdos and sickos...

Maybe because he wasn't. Creepy looking is more like it.

naybe theres more 'important things to notice! Wake uo

Ruth Gordon mentions it.

He was v v hot but such a git

he is absolutely GORGEOUS in this movie

agree..the betrayal, etc , horrifying, and not showing the baby's face makes it all the more terrifying bc we all imagine what is our own scariest subconscious archetypal image of what it would be!

My parents took me to see this - and I was in 3rd grade !!

No, you are a very sane person, I want to see it too!

No, not at all. Wouldve loved to see it as well.

The version with J-LO AND BEN?!!??? HMMMM

@@skreety0455 Aaaarrggh!

@@deaf2demands706 ?

This doc is on the basic DVD (non-Blu-Ray) . weird.

The Hutch character was too bright and knowledgeable to be in the story too much. He shows up again in the sequel Son of Rosemary.

In essence it was a story about innocence and depraved betrayal.

@@LivingLegendMe. It’s essentially a conspiracy thriller.

@@paulvoorhies8821 Rosemary is now out there somewhere, and her baby is being worship by the scumbag WEF....

* rapist Roman Polanski

"All of them Witches!" Tee-hee? Solving the Anagram....

​@@skreety0455 that was a chilling scene. I like when she figures out it's the name, not the name of the book

@@smurf902 And we're there with Hutch in spirit. Hutch is a great character.

People must learn to divide art from the person who created it. This movie is a masterpiece, it would be a crying shame if it would be no longer in public circulation. You are allowed to judge Roman Polanski as a public figure who committed a crime but it is wrong to say, because Polanski is a person with a dark past, you have to ban his movies.

Although I have never seen anyone say this because you would have to ban everything in Hollywood as well.. everything Harvey Weinstein produced and Woody Allen lmao, You'd lose so many movies.. no one even says that

I agree with you on that. Mia Farrow was so mesmerising in this film I couldn't stop looking at her. She played the part of Rosemary so well, a naive young bride completely in love with her husband. There were so many chilling moments. The moment she saw her reflection devouring the raw liver..gruesome! and when she was trying to tell the doctor about the satanic neighbours and begging him to protect her..then him turning her over to Guy..I was screaming inside for someone to believe her! A brilliant film and cast certainly up there with the greats.

TheTunao I'm a Kurbrick

Kimbler Lewis yeah

***** good comment!...and surname!

***** No, nor do we ignore the bad stuff that Polanski did. What we should do is realise that not everything is black and white. Life isn't so simple.

***** Any attention to his art at this point comes from his notoriety.. so whatever history you're thinking of would involve a time machine.

+SexyEunuch Jimmy Savile, R. Kelly, Bryan Singer, Stephen Collins... the list goes on and on...

FACTS: As for the "drugging" unproven because no toxicology tests were taken. According to THREE eyewitnesses, Samantha Geimer was NOT drunk nor under the influence of drugs. THREE eyewitnesses did testify that Samantha acted like his lover. THREE eyewitnesses said she was acting entitled and pissed off when the encounter was interrupted. Bryan Singer has been proven innocent by the credit card receipts his lawyer produced to show Singer was in Canada filming "X-Men" when Michael Egan claimed he sexually assaulted him. Singer cannot be in two places at the same time. Stephen Collins never hurt anyone. He merely flashed himself. Never touched, nor sexually assaulted. Only flashed. Hardly a crime, yet he's lost his livelihood due do a vindictive wife who had been through six lawyers and a judge who was constantly telling her she was not entitled to the things she believed she was. She lied on her depositions claiming she "gave up her career to help Stephen with his." One only has to look at her IMDB page and note that during the years she claimed she did not act, she clearly had at least no less than a dozen credits to her name. So she lied, then when it looked like the judge was going to penalize her for her actions, she illegally recorded a therapy session where the therapist was under obligation to divulge to the police if she felt Collins was a threat to anyone, including himself. However, she did not. The recording was released because of a scorned wife. In the final divorce judgement, the judge found Faye Grant in contempt and told her she was not entitled to more than the sale of the house and that she "should not gain financially due to her actions." It always amazes me how people like you want to paint with as broad a brush as you like, but you don't believe you have to do your own research to back up your claims.... Everything you say is the truth. You all sound like Trump on a Tweeting tirade. Neither of you want to take responsibility for your erroneous statements.

***** It wasn't fucking consensual. He drugged her

Molly Chambers Details

Just read a single article about the actual crime :S

NKDuisburg02 Yes many people have pointed out my beautiful hook nose. Has anyone told you that you look a bit like a penguin?

berniebernstein1 ROFL!!!

She definitely should have been nominated.

Yes she did deserve that Oscar

Seems to have been an administrative error...

No, but in her growing awareness, she whispers the name. "All of them witches..."

@@willemvandeursen3105 Yes. It was quite terrifying.

Mia would have been great too. Maybe better because she looked so vulnerable.

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ROSEMARY'S BABY AND THE SHINING: 1. A young couple moves into a building with a notorious reputation. 2. The buildings are both secretly under the control of a sinister cult of some kind (the witch cult, the ghost cult). 3. In both stories the husband joins the paranormal element in the building and betrays his wife. 4. In both stories the little boy is the focal point of the paranormal events. 5. In both stories the husband is trying to make it in the entertainment industry (Guy wants to be a star actor, Jack wants to be a star writer). 6. In both stories the building has a recent suicide of a previous tenant (in Rosemary's Baby Terry commits suicide, in The Shining Grady commits suicide. 7. In both stories the young couple is warned beforehand by an older wiser man about moving in (in Rosemary's Baby, Hutch warns the couple, in the Shining, Halloran sort of warns the Torrances about moving into The Overlook). 8. In both stories the wife figures out what's going on and becomes suspicous of her husband. 9. In both stories the wife character is depicted as very naive and easily taken advantage of.

@@LivingLegendMe You begrudge Shelley Duval HER best role? Like Mia, Shell never got an Oscar or nomination for it.

@@willemvandeursen3105 Never. I was just musing. Shelley played the part brilliantly. Nicholson went through a ritual before each scene to summon up demons to aid his performance. Unbelievable, but it´s captured on You Tube somehwere.

@@nicholasjanke3476 Naive...lol. Well I guess nobody suspects their husband is totally in league with the Devil.

Godbye, Mr. Chips! Peter O'Toole is adorable!

He didn’t know that Farrow wasn’t nominated for an Oscar? How weird is that??

Hi there, love that movie too, saw it more than a dozen times...Can you tell me the parts with the continuity errors? thanks...

Well said!

Statutory raper.... yes. Outstanding director with an amazing vision...yes.

I am not seeing people complimenting the art, here i see people complimenting a artist. Who raped a 13 year old girl after drugging her.

@@nitinhardy4078 well isn't it the same thing with woody allen , Charlie Chaplin? Do you separate art from artist?

I dont care what you say still takes something away from the movie..

Specially those home movies and pool scenes.

@@avigoldfedder5000 haha! well said

Ira Levin thought that Cassevetes over played his role. He thought that Cassevetes came off as creepy even in the opening scenes before he joins the cult.

@@nicholasjanke3476 He was perfectly cast. He's boyish, moody, egocentric. Levin himself wrote a scene where the marriage gets rocky, and Rosemary takes a short break outside New York. But he is still not unsympathetic. That changes with the pregnancy.

Yeah, but Evans didn’t know that Mia wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. How is that possible??

John Lennon was killed because he would have exposed pedophilia. He was starting.

They're both Polish!

Oh, Hi Mark

BASTARD RAPED A 13 YR OLD.

Hey. Tommy Weisseu IS a genius! Just in his own way

@Burnintreez321 Druging and sodomizing a 13 year old child is ok for you? Whatever was the girl's intentions. BTW he openly said in an interview in the 80's, that he loves girls between 13 and 15.. How about that?! Great as a film director but disgusting as a man.

Was Facebook even around in the 70's?

cubomania3 It's true. In a larger context, it is amazing how "beliefs" can have such a hold on people, that they maintain them no matter what the well established facts are. As one psychoanalyst of long standing said, summing up his conclusions about humanity after decades of practice, "People are nutty."

Does BF stand for Butt Fucked?

Duh, thought this video - and the comments - were about the movie. Oh wait, it is. Take your inane comments elsewhere.

PM I'm

She's also a horrible person. Read what Moses Farrow (her adoptive son) writes about her, it's eye-opening.

​@@LMB222She spanked him with a brush. Big whoop.

She was an adequate actress, and little more than that. Professional (thanks to her parents, I assume). But Great she was only once-- in Rosemary's Baby. Not even her Woody Allen roles impressed me. I wonder if - conspiracy theory alert - Polanski didn't make a deal with the Devil... what he got out of Mia was almost supernatural!

You're right. Rosemary did wear lots of yellow early on in the movie...maybe a sunny and happy color maybe before she was pregnant. She wore a lot of "Blessed Mother Blue"...light blue later in the movie. Scary story about your silver covered entre since it was an exact match.

@@josephjohnson1794 It's not just her clothes, the walls, accent pieces, furniture etc... it's an ongoing theme, meant, I believe, to symbolize innocence and light and youthfulness

@lolarites Reference to Catholicism. And Rosemary is a (lapsed) catholic. That made her perfect for the Catholic Satan. 😇